In the first way God decreed all truly good acts and many indifferent ones (Cyrus, Pharaoh and Joseph)
In the first way, he judges, God decreed and predefined all truly good acts, those that of themselves contribute to man's eternal salvation. To these God resolved from eternity to predetermine our will efficaciously, just as in time he actually does predetermine it.
Besides men's good works, he also thinks there are many other acts of a kind to which malice does not necessarily cling, to which God predetermines men's wills in time. These were therefore decreed and predefined by God absolutely from eternity: for example, the heroic deeds of Cyrus, what Pharaoh king of Egypt did for Joseph, and countless things of the same kind.
Latin
IX. Priori modo censet Deum decrevisse & praedefiniisse omnes actus vere bonos, & qui per se ad aeternam hominis salutem conferunt, ad quos Deus ab aeterno constituit voluntatem nostram efficaciter praedeterminare, ut revera illam in tempore actu praedeterminat. Sed praeter bona hominum opera, existimat quoque multa alia esse ex eorum genere quibus malitia necessario non adhaeret, ad quae voluntas hominum in tempore a Deo praedeterminatur, & consequenter quae fuerunt ab aeterno a Deo absolute decreta atque praedefinita, ut exempli gratia, heroica Cyri gesta, & quae erga Josephum Pharao Rex Aegypti gessit, & infinita ejusdem generis.